Film schools can integrate real-world projects into their courses to give students an edge when they start work in the digital video production industry. Working with faculty from leading film schools and universities, Adobe has created free, project-based resources for teaching video production skills to students at all levels.
Adobe also offers a selection of additional resources you can provide your film students to inspire them with work created by their peers and motivate them to learn on their own.
Inspire with sample projects
Use these free sample projects and assets in your courses to help advanced students deconstruct real-world examples, learn new skills through in-context video tutorials, and be inspired to create their own films.
Music videos
Teach students how to use advanced techniques like using Dynamic Link, animating text to sound, creating a cartoon look, building custom waveforms, and more to create a professional-looking music video.
Commercials/PSAs
Help students discover how techniques like 3D motion text, light writing, and motion tracking can enhance the promotion of a product or service.
Digital shorts
Challenge your students to produce a YouTube-worthy digital short using techniques like multi-effect presets, creating a hologram effect, changing weather from sunny to rainy, or using custom shape tools.
Documentaries
Empower students to document reality and inform the public using Speech Search, the metadata workflow, motion graphics and titles, and adding an aged look to video.
Explore the Digital Video curriculum
Digital Video: Foundations of Video Design and Production
Use all or part of this yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in digital video production using Adobe tools.
Adobe TV Education Channel: Digital video
Watch video tutorials that supplement the skills and techniques students learn through the Digital Video curriculum.
Develop your own video skills
New to Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium? Watch video tutorials on Adobe TV to learn how to use new features and quickly get up to speed with the latest versions of Production Premium and Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, Soundbooth®, and Encore®.
Production Premium
- CS4 Production Premium feature tour
- Introducing CS4 Production Premium
- Understanding digital video metadata workflow
- Using Dynamic Link
- Creating FLV and F4V files
- Using markers and cue points
- Converting metadata and markers to cue points
- Creating an event DVD
- Creating After Effects mobile compositions
- Introducing Adobe OnLocation™ CS4
Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 feature tour
- Introducing Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
- Batch encoding with Adobe Media Encoder
- Using Dynamic Link with Encore
- Viewing and editing metadata
- Using Speech Search to speed editing
- Mapping source tracks to target tracks
- Normalizing audio for the whole Master track
- Applying effects to groups of clips
- Using Photoshop® with Adobe Premiere
After Effects
- After Effects CS4 feature tour
- Introducing After Effects CS4
- Exporting from After Effects to Flash® via XFL
- Rotoscoping using After Effects and Photoshop
- Animating precisely with Separate Dimensions
- Using the Cartoon effect
- Using the XML project file format
- Creating Encore menus with After Effects
Soundbooth
- Soundbooth CS4 feature tour
- Introducing Soundbooth CS4
- Mixing multitrack files and restoring edits
- Working with Soundbooth and Flash
Encore
Dive into tips and tricks
Provide instruction on specific video techniques with these handy tip sheets.
- Introduction to digital video (PDF, 109k)
- Principles and rules of copyright (PDF, 38k)
- Video shooting tips (PDF, 699k)
- Shot list (PDF, 31k)
- Selecting and connecting microphones (PDF, 34k)
- Story creation tips (PDF, 35k)
- Writing tips (PDF, 44k)
- Student project proposal (PDF, 36k)
- Voicing narrations (PDF, 27k)
- The business of video production (PDF, 47k)
- How to plan and create a DVD portfolio flowchart (PDF, 38k)
- Tips for effective chroma key shots (PDF, 31k)
- Treatment (PDF, 23k)
- Peer review (PDF, 48k)
Rely on guides from the experts
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Classroom in a Book
With Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Classroom in a Book®, you can not only teach the basics of working with audio, creating transitions, and producing titles, but also provide a roadmap for using Adobe Premiere Pro efficiently for editing projects. The accompanying DVD includes real footage students can practice on.
Adobe After Effects CS4 Classroom in a Book
Each chapter in this step-by-step guide contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills learned in each lesson.
Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques
With this under-the-hood, in-depth guide to Adobe's updated motion graphics and effects powerhouse, you'll cover all the big features in After Effects.
